Suppose that you are listening to your professor's description of the layout of several buildings in a city. If the discussion of mental maps can be applied to your representation of this city, it is most likely that
a. you will store this information in a passive fashion, without creating a cognitive map.
b. your cognitive map will represent the distances as being larger than they really are.
c. you will construct a cognitive map to represent the arrangement of buildings.
d. your cognitive map will be highly inaccurate.
Ans: c
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